DAalseth
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I question the use of the phrase "Apple employees are not happy with the iPhone maker's return-to-office policy,"
It implies that all Apple employees are upset. This is a percentage of, a subset, a minority of the whole population. While they try to position themselves as representing all of Apple's staff, they are just
The Loud Ones
The Complainers
The Squeaky Wheels Who Demand To Be Greased.
By no means are they representative of most Apple employees. The result after April 15 shows that.
Now I understand the appeal of working at home. I am one of the workers who switched jobs spacifically so I could work from home. That was my choice. I did not try to force my employer to let me work from home. I found a job where I could do what I want. Understand that Covid has changed a lot of industries, and working remotely will remain a much larger portion of the economy from now on. But there are a lot of fields that require that you be present, be there in person. Sure software people can code remotely. But when it comes time to load that software into hardware and start running experiments to see if it works you have to be there. The team has to be there. Sure engineers can design things with CAD remotely. But when you start assembling the system, checking the parts, putting them together, you have to be there. The team has to be there, to see what it looks like, how it fits. That's not even counting the jobs that require you to be present full time, everything from maintenance people, to testing technicians, to people who actually make things, (for prototypes and such that I'm sure they do there).
Remote working is fine for some things, but it doesn't work for a lot of things.
